a funeral for an iphone –ar 5:3
Meta
Yann LeCun says in 10 years we won’t have smartphones, we will have augmented reality glasses and bracelets to interact with our intelligent assistants : r/singularity
“AI Agents creating youtube content?! And a sneak peek of crewAI+?! @tonykipkemboi just dropped amazing content on @crewAIInc using @ollama and @GroqInc
Rabbit
“Large Action Models sound cool, but they better get a LOT more robust to warrant a standalone device — even if it is made by Teenage Engineering. Perhaps it’ll take Apple, Google, Microsoft to make killer LAMs that integrate at the OS level. It’ll be your entire digital” / X
Other Agent News
Sam Altman says helpful agents are poised to become AI’s killer function | MIT Technology Review
AWS announces general availability of Amazon Q, generative AI-powered assistant
Cognition Seeks $2 Billion Valuation for AI Code-Writing Tool (Devin)
“Made this quick fun project AI recipe helper to learn some LLMs implementation on web in JS. Running on: – GPT-4 Vision to seek ingredients in groceries, receipts, or finished meals – GPT-4 to generate recipes with guidance – DALL-E 3 to generate recipe image previews
“A new AI Application World has arrived Everyone can now make their own AI Application, even me! You know I’m not a programmer, even though I worked for years at a programming magazine back in the 1990s where I learned a few things (that really set the stage for me to become a
GitHub Copilot Workspace: Welcome to the Copilot-native developer environment – The GitHub Blog
Jack of All Trades, Master of Some, a Multi-Purpose Transformer Agent
“Are you ready to take fast and private AI to work? Here is a sneak peak of Knapsack, a snappy desktop AI sidekick for your private files. Sign up for the private beta on
GitHub Next | Copilot Workspace
Self-Learning Llama-3 Voice Agent with Function Calling and Automatic RAG : r/LocalLLaMA
“Introducing Panza, a personalized LLM email assistant, running entirely on-device! [1/6] * Panza adapts LLaMA-3-8B to match your unique writing style; * Can be fine-tuned and executed on a single GPU (free Colab version available!). Give it a try:
“Introducing LlamaIndex.TS version 0.3! Featuring: ⭐️ Agent support including ReAct, Anthropic and OpenAI agents, as well as a generic AgentRunner class ⭐️ Standardized Web Streams compatible with React 19, Deno, and Node 22 ⭐️ More comprehensive type system ⭐️ Enhanced support
Nvidia’s AI chatbot now supports Google’s Gemma model, voice queries, and more – The Verge
“FLAME Factuality-Aware Alignment for Large Language Models Alignment is a standard procedure to fine-tune pre-trained large language models (LLMs) to follow natural language instructions and serve as helpful AI assistants.
“Meet Cubby 💜 The ultimate AI research tool for any content from the internet, or your device. Our first invite code drop will be here at 3:00 PM EST. To be eligible, sign up now at
“👋 Meet Victoria Shi — a digital representative of the MFA of Ukraine, created using AI to provide timely updates on consular affairs! For the first time in history, the MFA of Ukraine has presented a digital persona that will officially comment for the media.
Ukraine Unveils AI-generated Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman | Barron’s
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO | TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/102749-generative-ai-could-soon-decimate-call-center-industry.html
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AI News #31: Week Ending 05/03/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 95 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
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